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Oroonoko : Little Black Classic by Aphra Behn
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
We are bought and sold like apes or monkeys, to be the sport of women, fools, and cowards, and the support of rogues ...' Spy, traveller and pioneering female writer Aphra Benn's story of an African prince sold into slavery is considered one of the earliest English novels.
Rip Van Winkle : Little Black Classic by Washington Irving
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'I'm not myself - I'm somebody else - that's me yonder - no - that's somebody else got into my shoes...I can't tell what's my name, or who I am!' Touching and comic short stories from the 19th century American master of the genre. It is one of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series ...Show more
Seven Hanged : Little Black Classic by Leonid Andreyev
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one side and death on the other in the form of two deep, gorgeous and gleaming seascapes.' This astonishing novella from 1908, newly translated for Little Black Classics by War and Peace translator Anthony B ...Show more
Simple Heart: Little Black Classics: Peguin 80s #45 by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Black Classics
'She decided she would teach him to speak and he was very soon able to say, 'Pretty boy!', 'Your servant, sir!' and 'Hail Mary!" With pathos and humour, Flaubert imagines the unexamined life of a servant girl. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics ...Show more
Sindbad the Sailor: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #54 by UNKNOWN UNKNOWN
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Black Classics
'The valley was full of snakes and serpents as big as palm trees, so huge that they could have swallowed any elephant that met them.' A selection of fantastic and perilous adventures at sea from the Thousand and One Nights. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little ...Show more
Slip Under the Microscope : Little Black Classic by H. G. Wells
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Black Classics 77
'I will go in, out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome futilities. I will go and never return.' Three disturbing, mysterious and moving stories from Wells, science-fiction pioneer. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little ...Show more
Socrates' Defence: Penguin Little Black Classics No. 52 by Plato
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Black Classics
'I'll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I'm doing.' Somewhere between a historical account and work of philosophy, Socrates' Defence details the final plea of Plato's beloved mentor. Sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of ancient Athens, Socrates, Plato's teacher, founded western philo ...Show more
Speaking of Siva : Little Black Classic by Akkamahādēvi
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Black Classics
'To the utterly at-one with Sivathere's no dawn.' Meditative, deeply personal poems to the god Siva, from four major Hindu saints. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from ...Show more
Stancliffe's Hotel by Charlotte Bronte
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Reader, if you're ready, so am I.' These witty vignettes, set in Charlotte Bronte's imaginary world of Angria, feature debauched aristocrats, high-society courtesans and the rakish, brooding hero Zamorna, and offer a fascinating insight into Bronte's early writing. This is one of 46 new books in the be ...Show more
Tell-Tale Heart: : Little Black Classic by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was a groan of mortal terror ...the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul.' Stories about murder, mystery and madness, portraying the author's feverish imagination at its creative height. Horrifying tales of mystery, sickening madnes ...Show more
The Beautifull Cassandra: Little Black Classics by Jane Austen
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Black Classics
Austen's riotous early stories of drunks, poisoners and prison-breaks, written for her family's entertainment when she was a teenager. 'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.' A selection of Austen's dark and hilarious early writings - featuring murder, drunkenness, ...Show more
The Body Politic : Little Black Classic by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.' In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Class ...Show more